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A group of public officials and agencies has asked JPMorgan Chase for $200 million from a federal mortgage-fraud settlement to demolish and renovate vacant homes in Ohio.

The Thriving Communities Institute, a Cleveland-based nonprofit group working to revitalize urban areas, is leading the effort to put together the Ohio Plan.

The group wrote a letter on Thursday to Jamie Dimon, president and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, asking for the money from the $13 billion settlement.

Under the terms of the settlement, $2 billion must be used for consumer counseling, housing renovation and demolition, and reusing vacant lots.

“The state of Ohio has the capacity and expertise to utilize these funds quickly and efficiently to provide relief to Ohio’s citizens,” said the letter, signed by institute director Jim Rokakis.

According to the plan, $144 million would be used to demolish vacant and abandoned homes. The rest would be used to renovate homes, provide counseling for potential homebuyers and transform vacant lots to gardens or other uses.

“We tried to create a plan that is flexible and to meet every need,” said Frank Ford, senior policy adviser for the institute.

The Central Ohio Community Improvement Corp., which runs the Franklin County Land Bank, was among the groups that provided information to put together the plan.

Franklin County Treasurer Ed Leonard said officials have been pushing for money for renovations as well as demolitions.

“I thought it was a very creative idea,” he said.

John Turner, the Columbus land-bank administrator, also likes the renovation angle. The city has 809 land-bank properties. Ohio counties are now spending $75 million from the Ohio attorney general’s office to demolish vacant and abandoned buildings. Franklin County received $8.2 million in that program and is working with the city land bank. The deadline to use that money is May 31.